placenamesKilbelfad
Cill Bhéalad
A marriage linked an estate in the parish to the family later known as Pery Knox Gore.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhéalad · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbelfad · English · main form
Place & story
An estate extending beyond the parish
Land in Kilbelfad formerly belonging to the Ormsbys of Cloghan passed to the Pery family through Edmond H. Pery’s marriage to an Ormsby heiress in 1783, according to the Landed Estates Database. The Pery estate also included property in Ballynahaglish. Its later total exceeded five thousand acres in the 1870s, a figure for the wider estate rather than Kilbelfad alone. The database records the Land Commission taking over most of that estate in 1930. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbelfad. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Pery/Pery Knox Gore: estate333 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.